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Monday, August 27, 2012

BERLIN -- A tiger escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western
Germany on Saturday and killed a female keeper before being shot dead by
the zoo's director, police said.
The tiger slipped through a passage between the enclosure and an
adjacent storage building, where it fatally attacked the 43-year-old
keeper, said police spokesman Stefan Kirchner.
"It appears the gate wasn't properly shut," Kirchner told The Associated Press.
The zoo was evacuated and a SWAT team was called in, police said. But
before it arrived the zoo's director managed to kill the tiger by
climbing onto the storage building and shooting it through a skylight
using a high-caliber rifle.
Kirchner said it was unlikely that members of the public had witnessed the incident.
"This is the darkest day of my life," the zoo's director, Theo Pagel, was quoted as saying by Cologne newspaper Express.
The paper said on its website that the Siberian tiger was a
4-year-old male called Altai that came to Cologne Zoo from an animal
park in England. In November it fathered three cubs with a 7-year-old
Siberian tiger called Hanya, according to the zoo's website.
Police said the zoo reopened after Saturday's incident, which
occurred around noon (1000 GMT; 5 a.m. EDT). However, a planned
late-night opening of the zoo has been canceled.
Cologne Zoo is one of the oldest in Germany. It was founded in 1860
and houses some 10,000 animals comprising more than 700 different
species.

8/27/12

MONTERREY, Mexico – An escaped pet tiger named Deborah spurred a massive
deployment of police, firefighters and other first responders in the
northern Mexican state of Coahuila, authorities said.

Apolonio
Armenta, the Coahuila delegate of Mexico’s environmental protection
agency, Profepa, told Efe that alarmed residents began calling police
late Wednesday night with reports about a tiger roaming the streets of
Saltillo, the state capital.

“It was a tigress between 8 and 12
months old that some thieves allowed to escape when they broke into the
office of the pet’s owner, attorney Rodolfo Richards,” Armenta said.

Richards eventually managed to recapture the 50-kilo (110-pound) Bengal tiger.

Deborah
was only a month old when the attorney bought her from a pet shop in
nearby Monterrey, Armenta said, adding that while Richards has paperwork
confirming his ownership of the animal, he failed to register the tiger
with Profepa as a pet. Richards now faces up to 1.2 million
pesos ($85,000) in fines if he cannot explain to Profepa’s satisfaction
why he didn’t register Deborah.

Mexicans are allowed to keep
exotic animals as pets provided the comply with Profepa regulations,
which include providing the animal with an appropriate environment and
ensuring it does not become a threat to public safety. Such
animals are “relatively quiet, if they live with humans as cubs, you
make sure that they don’t suffer from stress or hunger and you give them
medical attention to keep them healthy,” Armenta said.

Six
months ago, he noted, a mountain lion and a tiger were dumped in front
of the Profepa offfice in Coahuila, while army troops later captured an
African lion in the town of Nava.

8/26/12

State officials said that Bioparque Estrella had closed Monday when
the tiger left its unlocked cage and fatally attacked 26-year-old
Herminio Rodriguez Palma. It was unclear why the cage had been left
unlocked.

The tiger was hunted down and killed

Some 150 police officers and zoo veterinarians began an
intense search for the tiger at the 300-hectare (740-acre) wild animal
park in the countryside northwest of Mexico City. It was captured and
killed before dawn.

Posted by
Wade G. Burck

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